Holiday snaps of 'smiling' three-ton hippo 'Otis' become web hit

Key

Question 1
a) False - And when the couple exchanged positions, the three-ton beast duly obliged with another grin for the camera next to her husband.
b) True – ‘my wife is a big fan of animals so we always try and visit somewhere when we are away,'
c) False - 'Actually the week we were there the zoo had just put two hippos together for the first time in the tank.
d) True - Mr Parker, 35, from Little Rock, Arkansas, even gets fan mail from people far away telling him he is their computer screensaver or Facebook profile picture.

Question 2
a) Jay and Lauren Parker come from Little Rock, Arkansas. While they were on holiday, they took some photographs at San Diego Zoo in California in front of the hippopotamus tank there.
b) The photographs have become extremely popular on the web after Jay Parker uploaded them. Afterwards, American and Chinese blog and chat users have used it, as well as others who use it as wallpaper on their computer or as the photo for their Facebook profile.

Question 3
a) beaming
b) beast
c) pops up/(to) pop up

Question 4
a) The extraordinary photographs were taken during a holiday visit by the Parkers, from Little Rock, Arkansas, to San Diego Zoo in California.

b) If my wife wasn’t/weren’t a big fan of animals, we would not always try and visit some when we were away.

c) Mr Parker said that it was kind of strange to think that there were people out there with a picture of him on their computer, but he guessed he was just the hippo man as far as they were concerned.’